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Old Nov 6, 2019 | 8:33 pm
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indomie
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Originally Posted by machotspur
Next week I'm flying from London to Nepal, with a 2 hour transit at Doha. We were planning to take a couple of bottles with us from Duty Free at London, through to final destination.

Luggage will be checked right through at London so i remain air side at Doha, but do I go through any customs check when doing the transit to the second leg of the journey?

I was planning to take a couple of bottles with me from Duty Free at London,
I assume that if it's in the sealed Duty Free bags, you'll be ok. My problem was I had purchased the alcohol outside the airport on my trip... so I wouldn't have made it onto the plane if I had been traveling to the US as it was just a few loose bottles.

I distinctly remember a passenger in tears once at secondary screening because she had a bottle of some crazy expensive alcohol & they confiscated it from her. I think she said she'd bought it from Duty Free, but I guess it wasn't in the bag anymore.

But.... I'd also caution you not to take my assumption as fact.
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